8/10/14
The
Happiness Project Trio
Homework
1: Eat Pray Love 1-18 beads
“You’ve
now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless
devaluation of self.”
I’ve
ready this book maybe four or five times now, and this time around when I came
across this line in bead five and the paragraph that led up to it, I couldn’t
help but go back to a time when I was in that position. It was back in 2012,
when I returned back to Guam with my severely broken heart and a negative
balance in my back account. I had gone through what I felt like was the
Hurricane Katrina of breakups, and just like Liz said, I found myself “skinny
and shaking in the corner… a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own
eyes.” I find that every now and then, it is good to pay that time in my life a
visit, not so I can dive once again into the misery, but so I can appreciate
the blessing of Time. Again like Liz said “The fact that I can even write
calmly about this today is mighty evidence of time’s healing powers…” So I
revisit that time in my life first to send up some gratitude to Father Time and
the people and sequence of events that came after that dark period, and second,
to remind myself that in order to never fall into a hole that deep again, I
must be diligent about maintain my level of well-being and happiness. This
happiness stuff is a practice, we must cultivate and ponder it everyday, so
that if and when a storm does hit, we are fully equipped with the necessary
tools, and ready to face it head on. Maybe even with a smile on our face.
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